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, softly. "why should ho not be here,

he sees me-" was the abrupt reply.
"Oh, do 60 away this minute. DO,
dear Harry" she pleaded In terrified,
beseeChing accents.
He looked at her, then around him,
irresolute for moment. The colonel
had turned his back and was moving
into another room. No, he could not
go just yet, the temptation to remain
was too strong.
"LeaVe you now when we are happy
and are to be parted so soon? No, |
cannot darling" he whispered fOndly.
"But never fear, we will keep out Of
his way"
She did not urge him any more. She
did not fully understand the magni-
tude OF the offence, nor the risk it in
vOlved, and was too glad to keep him
u little longer by all available means.
There were a number of reception
rooms in the locale where the ha Twas
held, all of which we're thrown open
for the occasion. Keeping cautious
eye around them, the young people
COntrived to pass from one apartment
to another, whenever they detected
the dreadful form of the colonel ap-
preaching. After awhile he settled
down quietly at whist table in the
distance and they gave themselves up
with rec less gaiety to the enjoyment
OF the evening. Another hour passed
and supper.time came, and still they
danced or fingered in the quiet hooks,
and managed successfully to elude the
eyes whose recognition was so to be
avoided.
What a comfort it is that he is
such maypole, and may be observed
from affair."" laughed the girl, who had
caught the injection OF her lovers
audaCity.
At length the dreaded time for part
ing was at hand. The early morning
train was to bear away the lady to
her fathers summer residence, and
thus to separate for awhile the newly
plighted pair. What wonder, that in
those last few precious moments they
forcot Ill precautions, and saw and
heard nothing in each others alien
crossing presence? He followed her
to the hall, and folded the shawl care
fully around her graceful form; for
another happy moment yet he stood
with her hand locked in his, meeting
all her heart Shipping out through her
deep blue eyes. Then the carriage
door closed with sharp bang, which
struck cold and heavy on his ear, as
the rolling wheels bore her away into
the night.
Perhaps his eyes were somewhat
dazzled by the bright, parting glance
he had drunk in so eagerly, for all
other things around looked dim.
Presently he turned listlessly to take
his hat and depart in his turn still
feeling like one who dreams. Sudden
ly, however, something impelIed him
to look up, and what was his dismay
when he found himself face to face
with-the colonl.
There was q crowd of departing
guests IN the hall, and as they gather
ed and hustled each other, the two
men who had been thus unexpectedly
brought together were again borne
apart. The recognition was j stan
taneous therefore, and in anoth3 mo-
ment the junior officer had conceived
to mingle with and disappear in the
crowd. But by the stern, astonished
gaze which had met his eye for that
brief instant, he knew that he had
been identified, and that the colonel
fully remembered where he ought to
have been.
If he still ventuFed to retain any
hope that the recognition had not
been complete, such hope was prompt
ly dispelled by the order which pres
emily rang out in ominous tones from
the colonels well-known voice of thun-
der.
Drive to the Royal Bank instant.
fyi It SAID with awful distinctness.
And 60 as fast as you can"
Capt. Kendall had managed to slip
unobserved through the doorway, and
he now stood in the street.
What was to be done2 The car
riages that were in waiting there were
all private ones. The hackney coach
es were far down the file and even had
he been lucky enough to secure one in
time. the rattle of the wheels at that
hour OF the night speeding in the same
direction as the colonePs carriage, or
indeed the very fact OF vehicle stop
ping before the bank would have con-
@IbC0 AAlh DIV OuCc. 1uSI0 WAS uOb ~
moment to be lost.
At this crisis, fortunately, his wits
did not forsake him. A sudden in
spiration presented itself to his mind,
and bis decision was taken in a twink
ling. Favored by the opportune dark
ness he crept round to the back of the
colonels carriage, and, just as
it was starting, he sprang up nimbly
on the step behind. The roachman
whipped up bis horses ratified his
wheels through the still streets Of the
sleeping city, clearing the distance in
double quick time, in order to fore
stsa the return q the Delinquent